powderfreak

Sunny Spruce Quad opens tomorrow with more terrain but I don’t think they dropped any other major ropes today. Got 1-2” throughout the day and still snowing this evening.

Good luck this afternoon dude. Gonna be a bit too far south for up here.

That's a big part of the NNE mtn climo... flakes in the air. It's especially awesome early season with the holiday lights and mood from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Keeps things looking fresh. This little upslope event over the last 18 hours is finally going to snow itself out soon, but it's still snowing steadily on the slopes per friends. Moisture was certainly lacking but this seemed to maximize what precipitable water there was.

Great stuff out there today on Mansfield. The upslope machine brought 6" to the mountain throughout the day and while cold powder, it had some density to it. A lot of small flakes and even graupel at times. Patrol was dropping ropes throughout the day. The base from the November snow set-up perfectly and despite nothing exciting for snow depths, it skied really good. Someone else caught a rare photo of myself heading down to set-up for a photo from below. The natural snow pitch of the Upper National Headwall is one long sustained ramp and it was so fun to just crush it in huge GS turns on an all-natural snow base. We completely missed the big storm but man was this some good skiing. Upslope "bread and butter" snow came through.

1.5” at home or so today and 4” at 1,500ft with 6” up high. Great day on the slopes.

In the beta testing phase of a snow cam at 3,300ft location. 1” this morning before the board dumped at 6am...then another 3”....4” running total so far. Need to get some denser mesh or even just board up the fence to stop wind flow. It’s still hit or miss but seems to be capturing this event well so far.

Summit Stake is 15-16” now it looks like. Might climb another couple by later today.

Coming down nicely. 2” in the base area now.

Flow is blocked pretty well as it’s backed all the way into BTV. Like an interstate pileup of cars, that pile up of air that can’t get over the Spine has made its way west so the best lift is closer to BTV than the mountains.

Coming down steadily at the mountain. Had 1” at 5:30am to put on the snow report (I see Smuggs put 1” too) but by the time the lifts open it’ll be more at this rate. The stuff in town seemed very fluffy but up here it seems denser with small flakes. Should ski really nicely. We’ll see what we can pick up today.

HRRR is pretty robust for tomorrow along the Spine... 18z GFS hammers Jay...

You had 4” this morning? lol nice. Not even a flake up here.

1.5" here. Looking north can see sky just past your area. If this view is the consolation prize for missing the big snows, I'll take it. Love these Northern Greens. So dramatic looking with the rime.

It was socked in with low ceiling all day here. It was weird, a freezing mist at times amid small flakes at the mountain. Damp chill. 1/4” coating/film of snow at home.

Holy shit. Very close lightning strike to the house and shaking thunder out of no where. Didnt expect that.

A couple shots from the hill today... Good to stretch, don't want to pull a hammy.

Not that impressed to be honest, ha. The last 24 hours of Euro runs have ranged from around 0.2” to 1.15” at MVL. The lack of consistency is concerning.

I just came in to post that we just had a nice flare up and period of decent snow dusting us up in the last hour.

Yeah it depends on where she lives. Alex at 1,500ft in Bretton Woods would be saved relatively on SE flow as he's tucked in closer to the terrain.... but get a few miles further out and it probably is a very sharp gradient. Similar to our upslope.

That's awesome. I love those differences, even when I'm on the lower end of that, ha. I love how narrow the difference in appeal can be in elevation snow. That's a big difference in vibe there...from gray/wet to white/bright.

Utterly obscene. It’s hard to match these departures over a 17-day period. I mean MPV/MVL are both almost -10 on the month. For here... 5 of the last 6 days had departures of -19F or lower, as much as -26F a day. BTV... -7.9 1V4... -8.9 MVL... -9.3 MPV... -9.4 This is holy shit level of cold departures.

Island Pond, VT at the ISPV1 station had a low of -11F and a high of 39F.... nice 50-degree diurnal swing.

Good quality snow out there today... cold but no wind and full sunshine...felt warmer than the temperature said.

I like a freezing rain to snow type transition with this one... maybe a quarter inch of glaze followed by 2-3” of snow? Euro maps... it cools it enough to flip to a few hour period of steady snow at the end.

You had 2”. Its the highest depth... makes no difference if you went to sleet, or the temp went to 60F and it melted in minutes, lol....if you had 2” of snow at some point, that’s your snow total. Inevitably it’s all going to melt anyway at some point...whether that 2” is there for 3 months or only an hour doesn’t matter.